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Sur la plage, coucher de soleil (1865)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage, coucher de soleil (On the Beach, Sunset) 1865 Oil on wood, 38.1 x 58.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin‘s masterful and convincing representation of light effects, such as the sunset in…

Virgen Niña (1658-1660)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (Childhood of the Virgin) 1658–1660 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 53.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Francisco de Zurbarán, one of the leading painters of the Spanish Golden Age, played an important role in…

Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1620)

Guercino (1591-1666) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 89 x 75.7 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Typical of Guercino‘s early, pre-Roman phase are the very delicate gradations of the main sections, shimmering…

Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (1624)

Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…

Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (1657)

Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…

Autoritratto mentre dipinge ‘Amore fedele’ (1655)

Guercino (1591-1666) Autoritratto mentre dipinge ‘Amore fedele’ (Self-Portrait before a Painting of “Amor Fedele”) 1655 Oil on canvas, 116 x 95.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In this vertical portrait painting, a pale-skinned, bearded man holding a painter’s palette…